Monday, September 26, 2011

hello kitty cake

My friend Helen has a friend Alysa who asked me to make a Hello Kitty cake for a bridal shower she was planning. I had made the same cake for my daughter's first birthday, as well as a piggy cake using the same cake pan.

This time I made two layers of chocolate cake, and a strawberry whipped cream to go in between to two layers. I've made whipped cream filling to go inside of chiffoncake in the past, but never for a more dense cake like this chocolate cake. I had seen a recipe somewhere for stabilized whipped cream, which had dissolved gelatin added to it, so I thought I would try that to keep the whipped cream firm. But when I tried it out, the whipped cream came out soft and gummy - perhaps I added the dissolved gelatin too soon? So I ended up making a second batch of my regular strawberry whipped cream - hopefully it held up!

After filling and stacking the two layers, I did a crumb coat of cream cheese frosting. Then I piped the eyes, nose, bow, and whiskers. And finally I filled in the entire face with a star tip.

When Alysa came to pick up the cake, we both thought each other looked familiar - and after talking a bit, it turned out that we went to the same high school! What a small world!

I found the link for your site on del-icio.us! These are really great cakes, especially the Hello Kitty designs! The step-by-step pictures are really neat and add so much to the articles/blogs. They look really...Yummy. The photo showing the expression of excitement and joy at first sight of the Superman cake at the birthday part WAS priceless. All best!

Hi! I found your site on Pinterest and am making one of these cakes this week. I see the commenter above me asking the same question...but I am not a cake baker, just make them occasionally for my kids. So should I buy 2 boxes of mix for 2 layers of this cake or will one store-bought box give me enough to bake two layers?

@Amanda - i believe one box of mix will make two 8-inch layers, correct? it should say on the box. if so, then you can just use one box. the recipe i use is not a box mix, but it is meant to fill two 8-inch pans. good luck!